Problems Solutions Good Practices - UITP
Problems Solutions Good Practices - UITP
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Reforming transport institutions and<br />
empowering local authorities<br />
The Gauteng Province is the economic engine of South<br />
Africa and Southern Africa. It includes 3 metropolitan<br />
municipalities<br />
• City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality<br />
• Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality<br />
• City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (previously<br />
Pretoria).<br />
Johannesburg<br />
Tshwame<br />
Ekurhuleni<br />
A number of other cities in Africa have also taken the initiative to reform<br />
their institutions. In 1997, Dakar created its local authority CETUD, followed<br />
by Abidjan in 2000 with AGETU and more recently Lagos in 2002 with LAPTA.<br />
It also includes three districts municipalites.<br />
The Gauteng TCC (Transport Co-ordination Committee)<br />
was created in 1996 in view of the fact that the Gauteng<br />
Province is largely urban and operates as a functional<br />
transport area and because of the large percentage of<br />
transport movements across the boundaries of the<br />
municipalities.<br />
The TCC co-ordinates transport policy between the 3<br />
metropolitan municipalities, the three district<br />
municipalities, the province, the local rail operators and<br />
the national railways government agency.<br />
Nevertheless, all three metropolitan municipalities are<br />
advanced in the investigation to establish Transport<br />
Authorities.This will enable many functions to be devolved<br />
to the municipalities, and will ensure that the previous<br />
fragmented approach to the planning, management<br />
and control of public transport can be eliminated.<br />
Municipalities are now, for the first time, preparing<br />
integrated transport plans which include public transport<br />
as well as transport infrastructure. The planned taxi<br />
recapitalisation process, which is aimed at replacing the<br />
16-seater vehicles with 18 and 35-seaters, will have a<br />
major impact on the public transport system. Gauteng<br />
is also advanced with the implementation of a Rapid<br />
Rail transport system to link all three metropolitan<br />
municipalities.<br />
Urban transport policy is more efficient when it<br />
takes local and regional perspectives into account<br />
<strong>Good</strong> practice 1<br />
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